Spectacles – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Euro exploitation flick documentaries on YouTube

No budget, no morals.

Updated esteladas

And a great train-wreck song.

Young German killed in a Barcelona bullfight

But what was Mr Wandersahen’s real name?

15-M’s principal revolutionary goal revealed

Cinema for animals.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, “one of the most important … composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries”?

The computer says no.

Whenever I see The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, I think of Alphonse Laurencic

And here. I would dearly love to find out more about Alphonse and his creations. Someone once showed me a magazine with a few relevant pictures, but I’ve forgotten who/what/where. All but the blind will have noticed my background tribute on this blog’s front page to Robert Wiene. The OpenFlix/YouTube publishing of Dr Caligari is…

Manga monster in a Tarragona wood

Pity you can’t see it from the motorway. Or perhaps not. (H/t Abandonalia)

¡España británica!

Why impose disastrous Spanish policies on thriving Gibraltar when British colonisation of Spain would have so many advantages?

Vitoria: Wellington could have had it all.

Best ever portrait of June Caprice?

This original drawing with its delicious absinthe blue is by one Emili Vilà Gorgoll (Llagostera 1887-1967, who he?) & is up for auction at Balclis on Wednesday. Here’s the competition. I go basically for the munchies and the odd curiosity. I sense an inverse relationship between price and personal preference – the expensive stuff seems…

Crisis, what crisis?

Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.